Solstice | Kin + Carta is seeking a User Experience Design Principal to join our expanding UX Team in our New York Office. If you’re passionate about emerging tech and understand the concepts of user experience and human-centered design, read on!

At Solstice | Kin + Carta, we provide great design through a few key principles. We Instill Confidence so that the end result of a well-designed experience is a more confident user. We Reduce Complexity and design products with the aim to make experiences feel easy. Finally, we Provoke Delightbecausewe don’t just design for usability, we aim to create experiences people love.

What we are looking for in you

You are excited and passionate about well-designed experiences and new technologies.

You have a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Art/Design or related field.

You’re able to manage your own time, whether working on a team in a collaborative environment or working independently.

You work closely with a development team and other disciplines.

You are a designer who can balance user goals with business goals.

You are excited about solving complex user experience problems in a compassionate and understandable way.

You have a great design portfolio that speaks to human-centered design.

You have the ability to manage multiple projects.

You are able to effectively articulate user experience issues and concerns and overall design principles to team members and clients.

You have a good understanding of platform guidelines (iOS, Android) and responsive web design.

You can demonstrate proficiency in design tools such as Sketch and Adobe products, and prototyping tools such as InVision and Proto.io.

What you can look forward to in the job

Your work at Solstice | Kin + Carta matters. The design work you do here will have a direct impact for Fortune 500 companies and their customers.

Taking a client’s vision from conception to completion and delivery.

Be a trusted advisor to them on the digital experience they will provide their users.

You will work with some of the brightest, most talented UX’ers around—you’ll learn something new daily and we would like to learn from you.

Guide and mentor our user experience team to create engaging and memorable experiences, driving an environment of sharing and collaboration

Work directly with business partners to define customer needs and translate needs into an experience brief, develop design strategies in alignment with this brief, and represent design decisions to senior leadership team

Producing wireframes and prototypes for mobile apps and websites.

User interface and graphic design for mobile apps and websites.

We welcome Solsties to show up as their full selves everyday. Because this is so important to us, Solstice | Kin + Carta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Location

An Insider's view of Kin + Carta

What’s the vibe like in the office?

As a new employee in the NYC office, Kin + Carta provides the best of both worlds—a fun and innovative startup here with the rock-solid support of a 300+ team back in Chicago. Our team is incredibly talented and builds great products. Despite the high-level output, the vibe of the office is laid back and chill.

Jennifer

Product Strategy Consultant

What makes someone successful on your team?

Being both accountable and gracious teammate as well as being a driven self-starter. Our team is made up incredible servant leaders as well as individuals who continuously make their own paths. To be successful with Kin + Carta, you must have a respect for your teammates, desire to lead, and an openness to being challenged and always learning.

Nate

Director of Product Strategy

How do your team's ideas influence the company's direction?

We’ve been in growth-mode a few years. While we've scaled, we’ve been disciplined about the flat structure in order to maintain a low-power-distance culture. From entry level to CEO, everyone’s roles are interdependent so their responsibilities are equally important. We know that insight and inspiration will come from every corner of the company.

Mark

Chief Product Officer

What are some social events your company does?

We take culture seriously and always make sure to have events planned frequently that keep us all connected outside of our day-to-day roles. With a plethora of offices around the world, we structure global events each office can participate in on the same day like our Rosé Soiree, and our annual Grilled Cheese Cookoff!

Anne Marie

UX Design Senior Consultant

What are Kin + Carta Perks + Benefits

Culture

Volunteer in local community

Kin + Carta's value of "Make A Difference" is shown through quarterly events and activities. One in particular, Pay It FWD, is our annual day of volunteering where our Kin combine forces & give back!

Partners with Nonprofits

Friends outside of work

Eat lunch together

Intracompany committees

Our Diversity, Philanthropy, Wellness, and Social Committees can be joined by any employee who wants to collaborate on events and make an impact upon our culture!

Daily stand up

Open door policy

Team owned deliverables

Team based strategic planning

Group brainstorming sessions

Pair programming

Open office floor plan

Diversity

Highly diverse management team

Diversity manifesto

Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Disability Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Health Insurance Benefits

Life Insurance

Wellness Programs

From sponsored 5Ks to Lunch & Learns, our Wellness Committee enables a workplace that encourages environmental and social support of a healthy lifestyle.

Company-wide happy hours, as well as team happy hours are common at Kin + Carta. The themes and locations differ, but they are always a good time!

Pet Friendly

Professional Development Benefits

Job Training & Conferences

We offer a wide range of training programs like LinkedIn Learning, Solstice University, and a mentor program. All full-time employees also receive $5,000 annually to pursue professional development.

Tuition Reimbursement

Diversity Program

Solstice is committed to positively impact, promote, support, and raise awareness of diverse communities in the Technology industry with the leadership of our Diversity Committee.

Lunch and learns

Employees plan and host lunch and learn meetings that happen almost weekly.

Cross functional training encouraged

Promote from within

Mentorship program

All employees are assigned a mentor who provides 1-to-1 support, career mentoring, and leadership advocacy.

Continuing Education stipend

We offer $5000 annually for continuing education.

Time allotted for learning

Employees are allotted two extra PTO days to use for their own personal training and development.

Additional Perks + Benefits

We have a variety of fun perks at Kin + Carta, but our favorites focus on employee development! We know that investing in employee development is crucial to our success as a growing and forward thinking firm. All full-time employees have an annual personal training budget and time off. Employees will use this to take classes, buy materials, and go to conferences. We also have our internal training program, a mentorship program, and knowledge sharing through discipline circles and Lunch and Learns!